Before the war and especially before the Boer War it was summer all the year round.
What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms of individual success, with hardly any consciousnes...
People worship power in the form in which they are able to understand it.
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is th...
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
You can only rule over a subject race, especially when you are in a small minority, if you honestly believe yourself to be racially superior, and it helps towards this if you can believe that the subj...